Service-learning in higher education
Subtitle: critical issues and directions
By: [edited] by Dan W. Butin
Contributors: Butin, Dan W.
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Service learning -- United States; Community and college -- United States
Description: Advocates have positioned service-learning as a real-world, real-time opportunity for students to encounter academic knowledge in a meaningful and relevant manner. Service-learning in higher education settings offers a powerful alternative to traditional models of teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to develop links to local institutions, volunteer their time, and create a special bond between the university and the community in which they live. Service-learning has become a very popular alternative to standard courses in higher education and is gaining significant popularity. This book takes a serious look at the unintended consequences and alternative conceptualizations of service-learning and explores what service-learning could offer us in the future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Getting inside the "underside" of service-learning: student resistance and possibilities / Susan Jones, Jen Gilbride-Brown, and Anna Gasiorski; title: "Whose school is it anyway?" student voices in an urban classroom / Raji Swaminathan; title: "I can never turn my back on that": liminality and the impact of class on service-learning experience / Sue Ellen Henry; title: Beyond a world of binaries: my views on service-learning / Tiffany Dacheux; title: Changing places: theorizing space and power dynamics in service-learning / Caroline Clark and Morris Young; title: Service-learning as postmodern pedagogy / Dan W. Butin; title: The evolution of a community of practice: stakeholders and service in management 101 / Jordi Comas, Tammy Bunn Hiller, and John Miller; title: Human rights; title: human wrongs: making political science real through service-learning / Susan Dicklitch; title: "No one has stepped there before": learning about racism in our town / Marilynne Boyle-Baise and Paul Binford; title: Service-learning as a source of identity change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland / Carl Milofsky and William F. Flack, Jr.; title: Service-learning as crucible: reflections on immersion, context, power, and transformation / Lori Pompa; title: The aesthetical basis for service-learning practice / James Birge; title: Putting down roots in the groves of academe: the challenges of institutionalizing service-learning / Matthew Hartley, Ira Harkavy, and Lee Benson